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National Child's Day: November 20, 2023
In 2021, the majority (71%) of America’s 72.3M children under 18 lived with two parents and the next largest share (20.9%) lived with their mothers only.


Stats for Stories
National Family Week: November 19-25, 2023
In 2022, there were 83.3 million families in the U.S. and average family size had shrunk to 3.11 from 3.20 in 2007, according to the American Community Survey.


Random Samplings Blog
Difference Between the Supplemental and Official Poverty Measures
There has been continued debate about the best way to measure poverty in the U.S. since the first official U.S. poverty statistics were published.


Stats for Stories
National Parents’ Day: July 23, 2023
Of the 63.2M parents living with their children <18, 76.1% lived with a spouse, 15.1% had no spouse/partner present. The rest lived with a cohabiting partner.


Press Release
Report on Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support
The report includes demographic and income data about custodial parents, and details child support income for custodial parents living below the poverty level.


Press Release
44% of Custodial Parents Receive the Full Amount of Child Support
Approximately two-thirds (69.3 percent) of custodial parents who were due child support received some payments from noncustodial parents.


Facts for Features & Special Editions
"Father�s Day: June 18, 2017"
The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

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